emacs VS neovim

Compare emacs vs neovim and see what are their differences.

emacs

My literate emacs config (by mohkale)

neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability (by neovim)
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emacs neovim
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11 75,505
- 2.9%
8.8 10.0
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YASnippet Vim Script
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emacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-07.
  • Evil ain't Vim
    3 projects | /r/vim | 7 Jan 2021
    Maintainability and readability I suppose. Take for example my emacs config, it's a massive. It's got everything from bindings, commands, documentation and more. This is the kind of thing you can build because you're using a modern-ish language that's designed for this.

neovim

Posts with mentions or reviews of neovim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing emacs and neovim you can also consider the following projects:

vim9 - An experimental fork of Vim, exploring ways to make Vim script faster and better.

helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

AstroVim - AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins [Moved to: https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim]

LunarVim - 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.

pylance-release - Documentation and issues for Pylance

neovim-qt - Neovim client library and GUI, in Qt5.

vim-visual-multi - Multiple cursors plugin for vim/neovim

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

intellij-lsp-server - Exposes IntelliJ IDEA features through the Language Server Protocol.